Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 57 62
Rank change year-on-year -60 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,473 1,942 3,657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.63% 4.42% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 4.74% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 1,067 2,755
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,725 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,374 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.75% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,871 40,971 82,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.97% 93.32% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,937 22,765 59,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -57 1,345 £75,000 - 548
London +4 703 £87,500 +2.94% 234
UK excluding London -127 652 £67,374 -3.75% 358
Work from Home -36 636 £70,000 -2.77% 296
North of England -65 295 £69,310 -4.07% 118
South East -90 149 £67,500 - 104
North West -65 146 £70,000 -3.45% 72
Yorkshire -41 95 £69,310 -7.43% 25
South West -83 63 £52,500 -23.39% 48
Midlands -108 62 £67,500 +3.85% 46
North East -2 54 £65,000 +23.81% 21
East of England -24 41 £60,100 +4.52% 19
West Midlands -69 40 £75,000 +7.14% 23
Scotland -80 33 £62,500 -19.14% 14
East Midlands -76 21 £67,250 +7.60% 23
Wales -34 9 £53,171 +2.25% 7
Northern Ireland -30 7 £62,500 +13.64% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.15%) Apache
2 17 (1.15%) Confluence
3 15 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (0.88%) CMS
5 13 (0.88%) IIS
5 13 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 12 (0.81%) JBoss
7 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.41%) WordPress
9 5 (0.34%) Drupal
10 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.27%) Appian
10 4 (0.27%) Camunda
10 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.20%) Liferay
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 11 (0.75%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.48%) Maya
4 6 (0.41%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.068%) Actimize
6 1 (0.068%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.068%) Quorum
6 1 (0.068%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 786 (53.36%) AWS
2 614 (41.68%) Azure
3 297 (20.16%) GCP
4 241 (16.36%) Serverless
5 150 (10.18%) SaaS
6 129 (8.76%) GitHub
7 125 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (6.99%) Amazon S3
10 83 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 79 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (4.89%) Amazon SQS
13 67 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
14 58 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
15 56 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 47 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 45 (3.05%) Datadog
18 44 (2.99%) Azure AKS
19 40 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
19 40 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (4.07%) Broadband
2 16 (1.09%) Network Security
3 11 (0.75%) HTTP
4 9 (0.61%) DNS
5 8 (0.54%) Internet
6 7 (0.48%) Firewall
6 7 (0.48%) MQTT
6 7 (0.48%) VPN
7 6 (0.41%) AMQP
7 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.34%) DHCP
9 4 (0.27%) LTE
10 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
10 3 (0.20%) Modbus
10 3 (0.20%) RFID
10 3 (0.20%) SNMP
10 3 (0.20%) WAN
11 1 (0.068%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (12.97%) NoSQL
2 181 (12.29%) MongoDB
3 172 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (6.04%) SQL Server
5 82 (5.57%) MySQL
6 74 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 73 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (4.01%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 36 (2.44%) Redis
12 35 (2.38%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.90%) Big Data
14 22 (1.49%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.09%) Pinecone
16 14 (0.95%) Power BI
17 11 (0.75%) DB2
18 10 (0.68%) Data Lake
19 8 (0.54%) Tableau
20 7 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 194 (13.17%) Git
2 132 (8.96%) GitLab
3 128 (8.69%) Jenkins
4 46 (3.12%) JIRA
5 44 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 36 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 33 (2.24%) CircleCI
7 33 (2.24%) JUnit
8 31 (2.10%) Cypress.io
9 23 (1.56%) Maven
10 22 (1.49%) Mockito
11 21 (1.43%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.22%) Selenium
13 17 (1.15%) Bitbucket
13 17 (1.15%) SonarQube
13 17 (1.15%) Vite
14 10 (0.68%) JMeter
15 8 (0.54%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.48%) NUnit
16 7 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 420 (28.51%) Finance
2 317 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 149 (10.12%) Banking
4 111 (7.54%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (6.18%) Law
7 69 (4.68%) Retail
8 62 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (2.92%) Financial Institution
10 42 (2.85%) Telecoms
11 34 (2.31%) Back Office
12 24 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.29%) Billing
14 18 (1.22%) Legal
15 16 (1.09%) Advertising
15 16 (1.09%) Games
16 15 (1.02%) Marketing
17 13 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.88%) Front Office
18 10 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 518 (35.17%) Developer
2 389 (26.41%) Senior
3 275 (18.67%) Software Engineer
4 213 (14.46%) Architect
5 190 (12.90%) Lead
6 127 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
7 122 (8.28%) Java Developer
8 121 (8.21%) Senior Developer
9 101 (6.86%) .NET Developer
10 98 (6.65%) Java Engineer
11 96 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 89 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
13 63 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 55 (3.73%) Lead Developer
14 55 (3.73%) Software Developer
15 50 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.26%) Principal Engineer
17 43 (2.92%) C# Developer
17 43 (2.92%) Senior Java Engineer
18 42 (2.85%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (22.81%) React
2 320 (21.72%) .NET
3 269 (18.26%) RESTful
4 260 (17.65%) Node.js
5 232 (15.75%) Spring
6 221 (15.00%) REST
7 210 (14.26%) Spring Boot
8 183 (12.42%) Kafka
9 125 (8.49%) AngularJS
10 110 (7.47%) .NET Core
11 94 (6.38%) ASP.NET
12 92 (6.25%) gRPC
13 86 (5.84%) Vue
14 84 (5.70%) HTML
15 77 (5.23%) CSS
16 73 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
17 67 (4.55%) .NET Framework
18 65 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
19 55 (3.73%) OAuth
20 52 (3.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 415 (28.17%) Cloud Native
2 252 (17.11%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (7.33%) Product Ownership
4 85 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (3.12%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (3.05%) Over-the-Top Content
9 39 (2.65%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.51%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.77%) Blockchain
13 25 (1.70%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
14 24 (1.63%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.49%) Public Cloud
16 21 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (1.29%) Virtual Team
18 17 (1.15%) Web3
19 16 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 79 (5.36%) Linux
2 41 (2.78%) Windows
3 20 (1.36%) Unix
4 14 (0.95%) Android
5 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.27%) CentOS
6 4 (0.27%) Debian
6 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.068%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (48.68%) CI/CD
2 598 (40.60%) Agile
3 549 (37.27%) DevOps
4 528 (35.85%) Software Engineering
5 391 (26.54%) Containerisation
6 374 (25.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 326 (22.13%) Mentoring
8 291 (19.76%) Event-Driven
9 287 (19.48%) Test Automation
10 286 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
11 283 (19.21%) AI
11 283 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 250 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 189 (12.83%) Scrum
14 180 (12.22%) Computer Science
15 174 (11.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 166 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
17 162 (11.00%) Coaching
18 156 (10.59%) Clean Code
18 156 (10.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 479 (32.52%) Java
2 402 (27.29%) Python
3 322 (21.86%) SQL
4 306 (20.77%) JavaScript
5 292 (19.82%) C#
6 244 (16.56%) TypeScript
7 131 (8.89%) Go
8 50 (3.39%) Scala
9 49 (3.33%) C++
10 48 (3.26%) PHP
11 38 (2.58%) Bash
12 31 (2.10%) C
13 30 (2.04%) Ruby
14 23 (1.56%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.29%) Rust
16 18 (1.22%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.22%) PowerShell
17 16 (1.09%) Shell Script
18 12 (0.81%) Groovy
19 9 (0.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 188 (12.76%) Degree
2 152 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 105 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (6.72%) SC Cleared
5 56 (3.80%) AWS Certification
6 31 (2.10%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.77%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.63%) CISSP
10 24 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.95%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (0.81%) CISM
15 8 (0.54%) PhD
16 6 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.34%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.79%) QA
2 36 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.04%) GDPR
4 27 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.49%) NIST
7 16 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.68%) NCSC
10 9 (0.61%) GRC
10 9 (0.61%) WCAG
11 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.41%) IFRS
13 5 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.27%) SLA
15 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.14%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.14%) SEPA
17 1 (0.068%) EMIR
System Software
1 452 (30.69%) Docker
2 12 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.068%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 464 (31.50%) Kubernetes
2 267 (18.13%) Terraform
3 83 (5.63%) Ansible
4 74 (5.02%) Grafana
5 44 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.97%) Argo
7 19 (1.29%) Kibana
8 18 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.68%) Puppet
10 9 (0.61%) HP Fortify
11 7 (0.48%) Cilium
12 4 (0.27%) Packer
12 4 (0.27%) Rancher
13 3 (0.20%) Istio
13 3 (0.20%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 158 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.34%) Google
3 49 (3.33%) Oracle
4 45 (3.05%) Typelevel
5 25 (1.70%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.02%) AppDynamics
8 14 (0.95%) IBM
8 14 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 12 (0.81%) Splunk
10 11 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
10 11 (0.75%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.68%) SAP
12 9 (0.61%) Cisco
12 9 (0.61%) Guidewire
13 8 (0.54%) Adobe
13 8 (0.54%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.48%) Databricks
15 6 (0.41%) Okta
15 6 (0.41%) Palo Alto